In compliance with the Law on Education of Georgia, "the State
announces priority of the education field and on this basis leads public education
policy". Elementary education is the first stage of general education according to
the reform program. The research and analysis identified several problems, which are
crucial for the successful completion of the reorganization of basic and secondary
education levels.

The majority of primary education teachers is of the pension age and
should be replaced by young qualified specialists. The reform implies the reorganization
of higher pedagogical institutions and improvement their efficiency in research and
methodological activity.

The Ministry of Education and Teacher Training Institutes should ensure
the following:

training of regional local authority groups;

providing engagement of teachers trained according to the state commission. Assessment
of needs of regions on staffing, formulation and realization of the Regulation on Work
Allocation of Young Teachers;

differentiation of remuneration of teacher staff by their categories;

creation of information bank for the teacher training and retraining republican system.

retraining for non-specialist teachers of schools;

organizing teacher training courses every 3-5 years in compliance with the new
curricula, teaching programs, and methodologies, etc.

Definition of the content for elementary education, optimization of
standards and creation of new curricula and textbooks on the basis of new methodology and
technology.

Provision of children from disadvantaged families with free textbooks;
The Presidents Foundation delivered textbooks free of charge to schoolchildren
throughout Georgia.

According to the Law on Education, "education is equally
guaranteed to all". Nevertheless, a number of children are left out of school. They
come from the most disadvantaged families and homeless children. The State should ensure
the equal right of education for all children of the school age despite their social
background. The expenditure should be allocated in the state budget. Allocation of 10% of
the budget intended for the education reforms has still not been executed.

The reform should have a scientific and methodological support.
Transformation of the education system and its orientation, based on the human, cultural
and general education values of the modern world, requires creation of new methodologies
in pedagogical sciences and practice, conduction of fundamental research in this
direction. Need to renew the education contents requires the formation of the contents of
subjects based on systemic, synchronic, didactic and other generally established human
principles, conduction of research for creation text-books, methodological systems and
etc.

The conception of moral, aesthetic, physical and labor education should
be elaborated. The training process methodology and content should be harmonized with
elaboration of education ways and methods. Teaching and education complex technological
system should be based on unified principles of pedagogical process.